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EMMY NOMINATED SERIES directed by and starring Steve Buscemi is back for a second season!!! Park Bench is a local's take on the special people, places, and spirit of New York City. Through unscripted moments with average New Yorkers and Steve's celeb friends, Buscemi takes viewers on a funny, first-hand journey/misadventure, told in his unique voice.

Journey to the Draft is an organic, unscripted, docu-series that follows three college football players, all with promising professional careers. These young men attend different schools across the country and play a variety of positions on the field, but at the end of the day they share one goal:to play in the NFL. The AOL docu-series follows players Leonard Williams, Kevin White and Marcus Peters.

Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

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"Stricly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly and The Saturdays' Rochelle Humes talk to mums about their experiences of being mum. Whether the daughter of a Rolling Stone, in one of the most famous girl bands the world has ever known, or a parent coping with disability as well as family life, each mother in Being Mum shows that the feelings, challenges and rewards of motherhood are universal no matter the surroundings you find yourself in."

Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

(Image Source: USA Today ) BY SCOTT MALONE ANCHOR JASMINE BAILEY Manti Te’o is suiting up again - not for Notre Dame, but for another interview - this time with Katie Couric. Why the need for another interview? Is it just a stab at gaining more publicity? Or is Te’o dead-set on clearing his name? USA Today reports Te’o’s parents will also appear in the taped interview “because they, not just their son, were taken in by his fake girlfriend” and the family “wants to show how the scandal has hurt them … and to talk publicly about the scam so that it doesn’t happen to other people.” So the difference between Te’o’s chat with Couric and sit-down with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap is simply two-fold: on vs. off-camera, and the presence of the parents...right? Think again. NBC Sports ’ Mike Florio says while the general content of the two is similar, the interviews are being sold differently. “Schaap … opened by vouching for [Te’o]’s credibility. Eventually, Schaap got around to the fact that Te’o lied to his father about meeting his fake dead girlfriend. In contrast, the primary takeaway of Couric’s Te’o interview … was that Te’o lied.” The other constant question surrounding all of the Te’o talk is: who knew what, when? And on that end, Te’o hasn’t exactly kept his account of the tall tale consistent across the two interviews.. Last week Te’o told Schaap he didn’t believe Kekua was a fake until Ronaiah Tuiasosopo contacted him to confess and apologize when news of the hoax leaked out. (Via ESPN ) But in his account to Couric, Te’o said he started to believe something was up in early December , when a girl who claimed to be his girlfriend called to say she was, in fact, alive. (Via WCPO ) Te’o told Couric he stuck to the script of his very-dreamy girlfriend’s death after he knew she did not exist because he really didn’t have any better options. “I get a phone call on December 6th saying that she’s alive, and then I’m going to be put on national T.V. two days later, and they’ll ask me about the same question? You know, what would you do?” (Via Fox Business ) As for whether or not he was in on it, Te’o maintains in both interviews that he had no part in creating the hoax. And according to the New York Daily News - he is hoping a receipt from a flower arrangement he sent to his girlfriend’s funeral proves he was a victim , and not a proactive part in creating her. The full interview will air on Couric’s show Thursday.

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